In case you missed all ads during the Olympics (and the ads that are plastering bus shelters around my house), Tim Burton’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland opens tomorrow, March 5. On one hand, I think it’s great since I’m sure lots of people will go to see it and I’m always in favor of …
First of all, thanks to everyone who came out last weekend for our Philagrafika events, the event was a great success and one thing we definitely learned from the watercoloring exercise is that adults like to do craft projects too! I realized through conversation that my label for George Cruikshank’s “Bank Restriction Note,” which was …
As we continue to pick our way through snow and slush on the streets of Philadelphia our librarian Elizabeth Fuller just pointed me to a great winter letter from William Floyd to George Clinton on January 28, 1780. Floyd was serving in the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, while Clinton was governor of New York. William …
Yup, there’s a lot of snow out there! But we’re back on the job and we got the finishing touches on the “For Ruthie” exhibit in time for opening today, so everything’s going full speed ahead. In honor of the snow and the upcoming President’s Day holiday, I’d like to direct everyone to last year’s …
…or at least that’s what it feels like as we prepare to install our next Sendak exhibit “For Ruthie: Ruth Krauss, Maurice Sendak, and Their Young Philosophers,” which will open next Wednesday (2/10). Or perhaps, to riff on another Krauss title, I could say “I want to paint my gallery green.” We haven’t actually painted …
With Valentine’s Day just two weeks away and the unseasonably warm weather at the beginning of this week lifting our spirits, we’ve been getting ready for some romance at the Rosenbach. We’ve reinstalled the dining room as a romantic dinner for two, changed the highlights in the partner deck to a more romantic theme, and …
This is a guest post by Rosenbach Collections Intern Jessica Walthew George Cruikshank, The Italian Assassin. London, probably 1810. 1954.74a Even the most industrious researcher can be waylaid by a red herring. Today we’ll relate the tale of “The Italian Assassin” and the clues that led (and misled) the collections and library staff at the …
Quick quiz: who is the most-represented illustrator in the Rosenbach collections? If you guessed Maurice Sendak, you are right–our Sendak collections are not fully cataloged, but the number we like to toss around for him is 10,000 books, drawings, and pieces of ephemera. Here’s a slightly harder quiz: who is the second-most-represented illustrator? It is …
I would like to devote this week’s blog post to putting in a plug for the second in our series of Friend or Faux seminars, which takes place this Saturday at noon. The event is free with admission but reservations are requested. This session will focus on paintings, looking at how experts go about trying …
My dear Rosenreaders, after shoveling out 20″ of snow this weekend I am looking forward to my holiday trip to sunny California (ok, it’s the Bay Area, so maybe foggy California). I’ll be back with you in 2010, unless one of my colleagues decides to chime in by posting in the meantime. A quick reminder …